I think we have learned by now that productivity gains does not mean higher compensation. It means more work.

I think he means that they won’t be able to find two full time jobs.

two income households deciding that they no longer need two incomes.

I think he implies that now they need 3 or more incomes to survive since 2 would be not enough due to jobs are oversaturated and some shit job that hires pays way less than needed to sustain 2 income household.

and as if this isn’t something that flags with the historical trends

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

In short, up till the 1970s worker pay and productivity moved nearly in perfect sync with each-other, more stuff happens, people get paid more, then, it stopped, company profits shot up, while worker pay barely went up at all (could be argued it went down due to inflation), Point is fixing that part first is kind of what matters. Then we can look into expecting the average person to care about “productivity” going up, THEN we can start finding out if AI is even being directed in a way that accomplishes that.

Your dream is realized Jeff! Just slightly different. My wife got laid off, so congrats, we’re a single income household.

I’d love to hear him explain his thought process behind that theory. How exactly is AI going to do all of that? Like, all of that sounds wonderful, but so does winning the lottery. How likely is all of that to happen? And what are the risks involved if it doesn’t materialize the way he envisions?

We really need to stop letting these rich fucks just talk out of their ass.

Sure he would, he probably just means they will no longer need two full time incomes. Greatness awaits America in a future when only one adult from a household has to work full time.

Sure the other adult and some fraction of the (?/5+)* children that federal and state policies ensure they’re forced to give birth to, may need to take on some form of employment to keep food on the table or meet their state’s medicaid and/or food stamp work requirements.

But when that inevitably happens, they always have the freedom of picking up a few shifts at one of Daddy Bezo’s local warehouses,** guaranteed to be located in an American hellscape near you, and sandwiched conveniently between your local data center and concentration camp detention center.

If you’re from a really bougie area, you might just have a hospital across the street from your Amazon warehouse full of doctors trained at Wal-Mart’s new medicals schools (bc America thrives on competition 🙃), who will rely on AI for patient diagnosis instead of wasting time and money on all those unnecessary lab workups.

Yep. With the system working as intended and the Oligarchy steering us towards greatness, how could America be anything other?

(*Unknown/variable number will actually survive past early childhood in a country hell bent on bringing back so many preventable diseases. On the bright side, no more public education = no more schools = no more “germ factories.” Unless you’re counting the actual factories where American children will work instead of going to school.)

(**As long as it leaves them just below 40 hrs a week and unable to qualify for health insurance through their employer.)

because if we’ve learned one thing about Bezos and his pals is that they will be sooo happy to share any additional profits with their employees!

you know some people have to deal with one income and its annoying he sees this as mandatory.

It is the destroyer of worlds.

Nuclear weapons were the holy grail of warfare, a game changer. AI is viewed by some as a similarly revolutionary, powerful tool.